Nadivijnanam and Nadiprakasham

Author(s): J C Sikdar
Publisher: Prakrit Bharti Academy

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PREFACE
A study of Nadivijnanami (Science of Pulse) of Maharshi Kanada was composed by him in Sanskrit in poetic order in the long past for the benefit of mankind. It was published by Sri Upendra Nath Sen Kaviraj, 29, Kolutolla Street, Calcutta, Bengal, in Bengali Script in the begining of the twentieth century. This work throws light upon the science of pulse dealing with the method of examination of pulse, the nature and movements of pulse indicating diflerent kinds of disease, curability and incurability of diseases, deaths of patients, times of death of patients, etc.
Nadivijnanain, fostered from the ancient times of India, shows an aspect of the Science of life (Ayurveda) based on the tradition of the vast accumulated experiences of the ancient Indian Physicians with scientific knowledge about the life of the suffering people from diseases and combined with the insight into the light of diagnosis of various 1. Edited with Bengali translation by Devendra Nath Sen and
Upendra Nath Sen, Calcutta, 1918. There is no English translation of the treatise -- Nadivijnanam in National Library, Calcutta.